On 19 May 2019, the Large Hall of the School Centre was the venue for the awards ceremony honouring the winners of the 20th Children’s Computer Graphics and Animation Competition – “Inspired by the myth. Iphigenia in Tauris” devoted to the Year of the Theatre.

On 8 May 2019, in the Giardini, the park that is the location of the largest national pavilions at the Venice Biennale of contemporary art, the opening of the exhibition entitled Lc. 15: 11-32 took place in the Russian pavilion. The display is entirely devoted to the Hermitage, one of the world’s la

For International Museum Day, which is celebrated on 18 May each year, the TurStat analytical agency compiled a rating of the cities in Russia with the most interesting museums. Saint Petersburg took first place.

On 18 May 2019, International Museum Day, ten young people from Russia gathered at the State Hermitage to participate in the first session of the International Youth Consultative Board (IYCB) of the Russian-Dutch project Museum 15/24.

On 16 and 17 May 2019, the Tate Modern museum in London hosted the latest meeting of the European part of the Bizot Group, an informal association of the world’s leading museums that engage in organizing international exhibitions. Mikhail Piotrovsky, the Director of the Hermitage, attended.

On 16 May the Hermitage hosted a session as part of the conference on the Evolution of the Neolithic Cultures of Eastern Europe organized by the State Hermitage in conjunction with Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education, the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology, the

On 19 May 2019, Alexander Moiseyevich Gorodnitsky gave a concert by the Portico of the New Hermitage entitled “The Atlantes Hold up the Sky” – poems and songs dedicated to my native city that was organized by the State Hermitage and the Gorodnitsky Foundation for the Development and Popularization o

On 17 May 2019, the exhibition “Treasures of the Red River. Archaeological Collections from the Museums of Vietnam” was formally opened in the Winter Palace’s Halls of the History of Ancient Writings. It is timed to mark Ho Chi Minh’s birthday and the days of the city (formerly Saigon) now named in

On 18 May 2019, the State Hermitage will as usual be participating in the international Night of Museums event. The special programme will take place at several of the museum’s facilities at once from 6.00 pm to 11.00 pm. (Ticket offices work until 10.10 pm.)

On 17 May 2019, 170 children gathered in the Hermitage Theatre: young patients of the children’s hospice, youngsters in the care of the rehabilitation department for oncological patients at the Solnechnoe children’s sanatorium, children from the Raisa Gorbacheva Institute for Childhood Haematology a

On 15 May 2019, the General Staff building of the State Hermitage was the venue for a meeting of the organizing committee for planning and conducting the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of the birth of Emperor Peter the Great. The event took place as part of the St Petersburg International Leg

On 10 May 2019, the Castello Sforzesco, former residence of the Sforza dukes of Milan, was the venue for a press conference devoted to the holding of the 13th UNESCO Creative Cities Network Annual Conference and the upcoming exhibition in the Pinacoteca Civica “Bruno Molajoli” in Fabriano, where fro

On 15 May 2015, a celebratory event was held in the halls of Classical Antiquity for the children with hearing impairments who regularly visit the Hermitage as part of the special programme “We hear the world! A Dialogue with the Hermitage”.